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New Books in the Arts and Sciences Presents:

Celebrating Recent Work by Nadia Abu El-Haj

Naming touch can bring visibility to different kinds of haptic experiences, presumably allowing for greater protection, knowledge, communication, and heightened sensations and emotions. Yet naming touch can also stigmatize, normalize, and suppress haptic desires and experiences. What is the effect of naming touch? Are there kinds of touch that evade being named, such as those related to violence, trauma, or intense pleasure? What does the attempt to translate these haptic experiences do to language itself?

Women and Gendered Violence, a plenary panel of the 2022 Memory Studies Association Conference in Seoul will be held online on July 5, 8-10 am EDT, 8-11 pm Seoul/Tokyo, 2-4 pm CET.

Panelists are Ueno Chizuko, Eunshil Kim, and Rada Ivekovic, moderated by Carol Gluck

The evening will feature a combination of live performance and a conversation between Joshua Bennett, award-winning author and Professor of English at Dartmouth College; and Saul Williams, critically-acclaimed musician, poet, and actor. They will discuss the history and cultural politics of the spoken word: examining the connections between black poetics and black preaching, religious tradition and the literary arts, and performance as a practice of freedom.